Kursk - The Russian Submarine That Sank in the Barents Sea The Kursk The Russian Submarine That Sank in the Barents Sea The Russian nuclear submarine 'Kursk' docked at a northern Russian home base port Zapadnaya Lista, in Bellona. (Photo by Oleg Nikishin/Newsmakers) By Jennifer Rosenberg Updated January 03, 2016. On August 12, 2000, the Russian Oscar-II class nuclear submarine, the Kursk, sank in the Barents Sea during naval exercises. The world watched and waited to find out if any of the 118 crew were still alive. The Accident On August 12, 2000, the Kursk was out in the Barents Sea for military exercises. During the exercise, the Kursk submarine was supposed to fire two dummy torpedoes at the Russian battle cruiser, the Pyotr Velikiy. After firing the dummy torpedoes at 11:28 a.m., an explosion went off on the Kursk.

Although at the time Russians believed the Kursk must have hit another ship or an old World War II mine, it is now believed that highly volatile hydrogen peroxide fuel from one of the torpedoes on board the Kursk leaked out, started a fire, and then exploded. The Kursk then sank to 354 feet (108 meters) in the frigid waters of the Barents Sea. Occurring just 135 seconds after the first explosion, another explosion ripped through the Kursk, possibly when the Kursk hit the seabed. continue reading below our video Test Your General Science Knowledge This second explosion was even larger than the first and was most likely caused by the rest of the torpedoes on board the Kursk exploding. Rescue Attempts At first, the Russians didn't realize that the Kursk had sunk. It wasn't until that evening, when the Kursk failed to check in, that the Russians began to worry that something might be wrong and sent out rescue ships. By the morning of August 13, 2000, the Russians had found the disaster area and began to attempt a rescue.

However, because of a lack of modern rescue equipment, the angle of the Kursk, and bad weather, all of the Russian rescue attempts failed. Knowing that time was of the essence, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Norway all offered to help rescue any survivors. For several crucial days, the Russians refused. The world watched and waited for news. With the Kursk at the bottom of the sea, no one was sure whether or not anyone had survived. As the hours and days stretched on with no rescue in sight, criticisms over the Russian response to the disaster began to flare. It seemed to many that Russia was still stuck with a Cold War mentality where they would not admit to their own limitations and would not trust help from outsiders. After four days with no success and mounting criticism from around the world, the Russians finally accepted international help on August 16, 2000, four days after the disaster occurred. What Happened to the Kursk Crew?

On August 21, 2000, nine days after the Kursk exploded and sank to the seabed, Norwegian divers successfully opened both the outer and inner airlock hatches at the rear of the submarine (the only section expected to contain survivors). The divers saw that the cabin had been flooded and thus concluded that all 118 on board the Kursk had died. The heart-wrenching part of the story was that there had been survivors - 23 of them to be exact. When the body of Lieutenant Captain Dmitri Kolesnikov was recovered, a note was found in his pocket , written several hours after the last explosion, stating that 23 men had survived. There were also several reports of hammering on the hull during the two days after the disaster. Then nothing more was heard. Raising the Kursk On October 7, 2001, the Dutch company, Mammoet, raised the wreck of the Kursk and then towed it to the docks at Roslyakovo in Russia. For safety reasons, they cut off the bow (the location of the torpedo compartment) and left that on the seabed floor.

The heavily damaged bow section was later recovered in 2002. The recovery of the Kursk wreckage allowed for the recovery of the dead, who were then buried in Russia with military honors. Kursk Submarine Disaster - YouTube Kursk Submarine Disaster Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. The interactive transcript could not be loaded. Loading... Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on May 22, 2014 K-141 Kursk was an Oscar-II class nuclear-powered cruise missile submarine of the Russian Navy, lost with all hands when it sank in the Barents Sea on 12 August 2000. Kursk was a Project 949A Антей (Antey, Antaeus, also known by its NATO reporting name of Oscar II). It was named after the Russian city Kursk, around which the largest tank battle in military history, the Battle of Kursk, took place in 1943.

One of the first vessels completed after the end of the Soviet Union, it was commissioned into the Russian Navy's Northern Fleet.

Category Russian submarine K-141 Kursk | Military Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Russian submarine K-141 Kursk An Oscar II class submarine drawing Career (Russia) Named after the Russian city Kursk Laid down: August 2000 Fate: Sank 12 August 2000 with all 118 hands in 100 m (330 ft) of water in Barents Sea Status: Raised from the seafloor, towed to shipyard, and dismantled </td></tr> Oscar II class submarine Displacement: 13,400 to 16,400 tonnes (13,200 to 16,100 long tons; 14,800 to 18,100 short tons)[ Clarification needed ] Length: 2 OK-650b nuclear reactors , 2 steam turbines, two 7-bladed propellers Speed: 32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph) submerged, 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) surfaced Test depth: 300 to 500

 metres (980 to 1,640 ft) (by various estimates) Complement: 44 officers, 68 enlisted Armament: 24 × SS-N-19/P-700 Granit , 4 × 533 mm (21.0 in) and 2 × 650 mm (26 in) torpedo tubes (bow) Notes: Home port: Vidyaevo, Russia </td></tr> K-141 Kursk was an Oscar-II class nuclear-powered cruise missile submarine of the Russian Navy , lost with all hands when it sank in the Barents Sea on 12 August 2000.

Kursk, full name Атомная подводная лодка «Курск», which, translated, means the nuclear-powered submarine "Kursk" [АПЛ "Курск"] in Russian, was a Project 949A Антей (Antey, Antaeus , also known by its NATO reporting name of Oscar II ). It was named after the Russian city Kursk, around which the largest tank battle in military history, the Battle of Kursk , took place in 1943. One of the first vessels completed after the end of the Soviet Union , it was commissioned into the Russian Navy 's Northern Fleet . Contents Edit Work on building Kursk began in 1990 at Severodvinsk , near Arkhangelsk. Launched in 1994, it was commissioned in December of that year. It was the penultimate Oscar II class submarine designed and approved in the Soviet era. At 154 m (505 ft 3 in) long[ Clarification needed ] and four stories[ Clarification needed ] high, she was the largest attack submarine ever built.

The outer hull, made of high-nickel, high-chrome content stainless steel 8.5 millimetres (0.33 in) thick, had exceptionally good resistance to corrosion and a weak magnetic signature which helped prevent detection by magnetic anomaly detector (MAD) systems. There was a 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) gap to the 50.8 millimetres (2.00 in)-thick steel pressure hull . [1] Kursk was part of Russia's Northern Fleet, which had suffered funding cutbacks throughout the 1990s. Many of its submarines were anchored and rusting in Zapadnaya Litsa (naval base) , 100 kilometres (62 mi) from Murmansk . [2] Little work to maintain all but the most essential front-line equipment, including search and rescue equipment, had occurred. Northern Fleet sailors had gone unpaid in the mid-1990s. The end of the decade saw something of a renaissance for the fleet; in 1999, Kursk carried out a successful reconnaissance mission in the Mediterranean, tracking the United States Sixth Fleet during the Kosovo War .

August 2000's training exercise was to have been the largest summer drill — nine years after the Soviet Union's collapse — involving four attack submarines, the fleet's flagship Pyotr Velikiy ("Peter the Great") and a flotilla of smaller ships. Explosion Main article: Russian submarine Kursk explosion Kursk sortied on an exercise to fire dummy torpedoes at the Kirov-class battlecruiser Pyotr Velikiy. These practice torpedoes had no explosive warheads, and were therefore manufactured and tested to a much lower quality standard. [3] On 12 August 2000, at 11:28 local time (07:28 UTC), there was an explosion while preparing to fire. [4] The most credible report to date indicates the explosion was due to the failure of one of the Kursk's hydrogen peroxide-fueled Type 65 torpedoes . [5] It is believed HTP , a form of highly concentrated hydrogen peroxide used as propellant for the torpedo, seeped through rust in the torpedo casing.

(A similar explosion caused by an HTP-fuelled torpedo was responsible for the loss of HMS Sidon in 1955.) [6] The explosion produced a blast equal to 100–250 kilograms (220–550 lb) of TNT and registered 2.2 on the Richter scale . The submarine sank in relatively shallow water, bottoming at 108 metres (354 ft) about 135 kilometres (84 mi) off Severomorsk , at Script error. A second explosion, 135 seconds after the initial event, measured between 3.5 and 4.4 on the Richter scale, equivalent to 3-7 tons of TNT. [1] One of those explosions blew large pieces of debris back through the submarine. Rescue attempts Edit Though rescue attempts were offered by the British and Norwegian teams, Russia declined initial rescue offers. All 118 sailors and officers aboard Kursk perished. The Russian Admiralty at first thought that most of the crew died within minutes of the explosion; however, some of the sailors had time to write notes.

Captain Lieutenant Dmitriy Kolesnikov, one of the survivors of the first explosion, survived in Compartment 9 at the very stern of the boat after blasts destroyed the forward spaces of the submarine. Recovery workers found notes on his body. They showed 23 sailors (out of 118 aboard) had waited in the dark with him. There has been much debate over how long the sailors might have survived. Some point out that many potassium superoxide chemical cartridges , used to absorb carbon dioxide and chemically release oxygen to enable survival, were found used when the craft was recovered, suggesting some of the crew survived for a significant time. Kolesnikov's last note has a time of 15:15, indicating that he and the others in the aft compartment lived at least four hours after the explosion. [2] However 32 hours after the first explosion no attempt was made acoustically (i.e. hull tapping) to signal the Russian Submarine Rescue Vehicle ( SRV ) Priz when it attempted to mate with the aft escape trunk.

[3] Western media criticised the 32 hour response as being very slow however the international published SRDS response time in 2000 was 72 hours. [3] The oxygen generator cartridges appear to have been the cause of death; a sailor appears to have accidentally brought a cartridge in contact with the sea water, causing a chemical reaction and a flash fire. The official investigation into the disaster showed some men appeared to have survived the fire by plunging under the water. (Fire marks on the walls indicate the water was at waist level in the lower area at this time.) However, the fire rapidly used up the remaining oxygen in the air, causing death by asphyxiation. [4] While the tragedy of Kursk played out in the Far North, Russia's then President Vladimir Putin , though immediately informed of the tragedy, waited for five days before he broke a holiday at a presidential resort house in subtropical Sochi on the Black Sea before commenting publicly on the loss of the pride of the Northern Fleet. A year later he said: "I probably should have returned to Moscow, but nothing would have changed.

I had the same level of communication both in Sochi and in Moscow, but from a PR point of view I could have demonstrated some special eagerness to return." [5] Raising File:Kursk wreck.jpg A consortium formed by the Dutch companies Mammoet and Smit International [6] using the barge Giant 4 eventually raised Kursk and recovered the dead, [7] who were buried in Russia – although three of the bodies were too badly burned to be identified. The heat generated by the first blast detonated the warheads on 5 to 7 torpedoes [8] causing a series of blasts big enough to be measured on a geological seismometer in the area – and those secondary explosions fatally damaged the vessel. Major concerns existed throughout the salvage operations relating to the armed cruise missiles remaining in the silo compartments, the risk of detonation of unaccounted-for torpedo and torpedo charge fragments, and recriticality or radioactive release from the two nuclear propulsion reactors on board. The London-based nuclear consultant John Large undertook the risk and hazard assessment, adapting this as further facts came to light throughout the salvage period.

[9] Russia said that that the sub's Granit cruise missiles [10] were not carrying nuclear warheads, and no evidence has been provided to the contrary. When the salvage operation raised the boat in 2001, there were considerable fears that preparing to move the wreck could trigger explosions, because the bow was cut off in the process, using a tungsten carbide -studded cable. This tool had the potential to cause sparks which would ignite remaining pockets of volatile gases, such as hydrogen. The successfully recovered portion of Kursk was towed to Severomorsk and placed in a floating dry dock where extensive forensic analysis was accomplished. The remains of Kursk's reactor compartment were towed to Sayda Bay on Russia's northern Kola Peninsula – where more than 50 reactor compartments were afloat at pier points – after a shipyard had defuelled the boat in early 2003. [11] The rest of the boat was then dismantled. In the end the bow was not recovered and was destroyed by explosives in 2002.

Only small pieces of the bow were recovered (some torpedo and torpedo tube fragments etc.) Investigation Edit In July 2002, the investigation committee concluded that a technical malfunction on a single Type 65-76 "Kit" (Whale) torpedo caused the first explosion [12] [13] triggering a fire in the torpedo room which, 2 minutes later, caused a detonation of additional torpedoes stored in the torpedo room (second explosion). [14] The second explosion destroyed a large section of the submarine (at least 4 of the 9 compartments) killing up to 95 of the 118 crew members and causing the submarine to sink. Around 23 crew members survived the sinking and took refuge in the ninth compartment where they died due to carbon monoxide poisoning following a fire in that compartment (between 6 and 32 hours after the sinking). [3] See also "Barren the Sea" - song about the incident, by Sequoya Scottish band Mogwai wrote the song Travel Is Dangerous about the tragedy from the viewpoint of the men who perished on board the Kursk.

Swedish heavy metal wolf wrote a song called K-141 Kursk detailing the events of the disaster Canadian musician Loscil wrote a song called Kursk - an ambient music piece on his album, Submers - an album dedicated to different submarines. English musician Matt Elliott wrote the song The Kursk about the thoughts of a man trapped in the sunken ship. Hungarian metal band Cool Head Clan wrote a song Torpedó about the tragedy of Kursk. Theatre Peril in the depths - the world’s worst submarine disasters - Naval Technology The K-152 Nerpa is now in service with the Indian Navy as INS Chakra. Peril in the depths - the world’s worst submarine disasters Accidents involving submarines invoke some of our worst fears, capturing worldwide attention. Naval-technology.com profiles some of the world's worst submarine accidents in history. USS Thresher (SSN-593) USS Thresher (SSN-593) sank while conducting deep-diving tests southeast of Cape Cod on the 10th of April 1963. The accident, which took the lives of all 129 men onboard, remains the highest ever submarine death toll in history.

USS Thresher was the lead boat in a class of 3,700t nuclear-powered attack submarines. Thresher had sent distorted signals of minor problems to submarine rescue ship Skylark before sinking within few minutes. The submarine was travelling in a depth of about 1,300ft at the time of the accident. The bathyscaph Trieste working alongside the oceanographic ship Mizar and other vessels deployed in an extensive underwater search found the wreckage of Thresher on the sea floor, at a depth of 8,400ft. A piping failure resulting in the loss of power was identified as the major cause of the accident. K-141 Kursk All 118 men aboard the K-141 Kursk perished when the Russian nuclear submarine sank in the Barents Sea on 12 August 2000. Kursk was an Oscar-II class cruise missile submarine commissioned into the Russian Navy in December 1994. Kursk was one of the 30 vessels that took part in the "Summer-X" exercise. The submarine suffered an explosion while preparing to fire dummy torpedoes during the exercise.

The leakage of high-test peroxide (HTP) from one of the Type 65 torpedoes was believed to have caused the explosion. The explosion completely destroyed the first three compartments. 23 of the 118 crew were left alive in the ninth compartment when the submarine hit the seafloor but they died subsequently due to lack of oxygen. USS Scorpion (SSN-589) The USS Scorpion (SSN-589) sank 400 miles southwest of the Azores islands in the Atlantic Ocean while returning from a Mediterranean deployment in May 1968, killing all the 99 crew onboard. The USS Scorpion was a 3,500t Skipjack class nuclear-powered attack submarine commissioned into the US Navy in July 1960. The USS Scorpion reported its position about 50 miles south of the Azores on 21 May 1968 and no issues were suspected until it failed to return to Norfolk on 27 May. The US Navy launched a search and the submarine was subsequently announced "presumed lost" on 5 June.

A deep-submergence vehicle, launched from the research ship USNS Mizar, identified remains of the Scorpion in October 1968 at a depth of more than 10,000ft. The accident was believed to have been caused by an inadvertent activation of the battery of a Mark 37 torpedo or a torpedo explosion. HMS Thetis The Thetis (N25) was a Group 1 T-class submarine built by Cammell Laird shipyard. The submarine was launched in June 1938 and embarked on sea trails in 1939. It was conducting final diving trials in Liverpool Bay when it sank taking the lives of 99 of the 103 crew aboard. The inrush of water flooding the torpedo tubes and then the bow section caused the submarine to sink to a depth of 150ft. The submarine was repaired and re-commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Thunderbolt, but was destroyed by Italian corvette Cicogna in March 1943. The crew discharged an indicator buoy, fired the smoke candle and alerted the submarine base HMS Dolphin.

The stern was afloat for several hours, but only four crew members managed to escape while the rest perished due to suffocation. K-129 (Golf II) The K-129 submarine, which was one of the Project 629A (Golf II class) strategic ballistic missile submarines of the Soviet Pacific Fleet, sank on 8 March 1968 in the Pacific Ocean causing the death of all 98 crew aboard. The K-129 was lost after leaving from Kamchatka on a patrol mission in February 1968. The submarine reported the position upon its test dive but sent no further communication. After unsuccessful attempts made by Soviet naval authorities at Kamchatka to contact K-129, the Soviet naval headquarters announced the K-129 "missing" by the third week of March. The Soviet Navy conducted extensive search mission, but failed to locate the K-129. The submarine was later announced 'lost with all crew'.

The wreckage of the K-129 was found by the USS Halibut northwest of Oahu at a depth of about 16,000ft (4,900m) in August 1968. The cause of the accident is still unknown. Ming 361 The Great Wall (Ming 361) was one of the Ming class diesel-electric submarines of the People's Liberation Army Navy. All 70 men aboard the sub perished by suffocation due to a lack of oxygen in April 2003. The submarine was conducting exercises in the Yellow Sea between Korea and Shandong Province at the time of the incident. Malfunction in the diesel engines which consumed the oxygen within the submarine caused the suffocation. The crippled submarine remained afloat for ten days as it was on a no-contact mission. The half-submerged Ming 361 was finally identified by Chinese fishermen on 25 April 2003. The boat was towed from the accident location to its homeport at Qingdao.

K-8 - Project 627A submarine The K-8 nuclear submarine, a Project 627 A (NATO code name: November class) of the Soviet Navy's Northern Fleet, sank in the Bay of Biscaya on 8 April 1970 resulting in the death of 52 crew members. The submarine suffered two fires in the third and seventh compartments while taking part in a naval exercise named Ocean-70. The crew was unable to suppress the fires after the reactor emergency systems were activated and both reactors were shut down, leaving the submarine with no power. The control room and neighbouring compartments were filled with smoke caused by the fires. Some of the crew were evacuated before the submarine sank to a depth of 4,680m, while 52 men including the captain of the vessel perished due to CO2 poisoning and flooding during the rescue and damage control mission.

K-278 Komsomolets The Soviet nuclear attack submarine K-278 Komsomolets, the only Project 685 Plavnik (NATO code name: Mike class) nuclear-powered attack submarine of the Soviet Navy, caused the death of 42 of 69 men aboard when it sank in the Norwegian Sea on 7 April 1989. The K-278 Komsomolets suffered a fire accident when operating in the Norwegian Sea about 200 miles north of the Norwegian mainland. A fire that broke out in the seventh compartment of the vessel spread out to other sections and resulted in the shutdown of nuclear reactors leaving the sub with no power. The situation was radioed in and most of the crew abandoned the ship while it was sinking. The remaining crew left in the sub tried to escape using emergency escape capsule, but only one among them survived. The Aleksey Khlobystov fishing boat picked up 30 crew members.

USS S-4 (SS-109) The USS S-4 (SS-109), one of the S class submarines operated by the US Navy, took the lives of 38 men when it sank after colliding with the US Coast Guard cutter Paulding on 17 December 1977. The submarine was rammed while it was carrying out underwater trials off Provincetown, Massachusetts. The collision created a hole on the hull causing water to rush into the inner hull. The submarine consequently sank to the sea floor in 110ft of depth. The majority of the crew who reached the aft perished within a short time. Six men in torpedo room survived for more than a day, but they too lost lives as rescue efforts were hindered by a storm. K-152 Nerpa The Russian K-152 Nerpa suffered an accident when it was conducting an underwater test run in the Pacific Ocean causing the death of 20 men of 208 aboard. The Nerpa is an Akula-class nuclear-powered attack submarine . The accidental activation of fire-fighting system released Freon gas into the air in the K-152 Nerpa.

The members in the submarine suffered from suffocation and could not activate breathing kits. The rest of the crew were unaware of the situation until the warning sirens sounded after large amounts of gas had been released into the submarine. Six crew and 14 civilian workers were killed and 21 people were injured. The casualties were transferred to a military hospital in Vladivostok. The submarine was delivered to India in December 2011 on a 10-year lease and is currently operated under the name INS Chakra by the Indian Navy. Share NUCLEAR SUBMARINES LOST AT SEA SINKINGS ALL HANDS DAS BOOT Launching a nuclear submarine, is like flushing 90+ lives and $billions of tax dollars down the drain. It does though make great headlines for politicians who want the public to think they are safe. 8 NUCLEAR SUBMARINES SUNK @ 2013 This article relates only to nuclear submarines. Many more diesel submarines have been lost at sea in peacetime. No matter what the propulsion, any submarine is a target to neutralize in the case of war or first strike - especially if carrying nuclear weapons.

Eight nuclear submarines have sunk as a consequence of either accident or extensive damage: two from the United States Navy, four from the Soviet Navy, and two from the Russian Navy. Only three were lost with all hands: two from the United States Navy and one from the Russian Navy. All sank as a result of accident with the exception of K-27, which was scuttled in the Kara Sea when repair was deemed impossible and decommissioning too expensive. All of the Soviet/Russian submarines belonged to the Northern Fleet. Although the Soviet submarine K-129 (Golf II) carried nuclear ballistic missiles when it sank, it was a diesel-electric submarine and is not in the list below. Of the 8 sinkings , 2 were due to fires, 2 were due to explosions of weapons systems, 1 was due to flooding, 1 was weather-related, and 1 was sunk intentionally due to a damaged nuclear reactor. In 1 case, the cause of sinking is unknown. All of the subs are in the Northern Hemisphere, and there are none in either the Indian or Pacific Oceans.

All of the subs lost are in the Northern Hemisphere USA Thresher (SSN-593), the first submarine in its class, sank April 10, 1963 during deep-diving trials after flooding, loss of propulsion, and an attempt to blow the emergency ballast tanks failed, causing it to exceed crush depth. All 129 men on board died. Location: 350 km (190 nmi) east of Cape Cod. Scorpion (SSN-589), a Skipjack-class submarine, sank May 22, 1968, evidently due to implosion upon reaching its crush depth. What caused the Scorpion to descend to its crush depth is not known. All 99 men on board died. Location: 740 kilometres (400 nmi) southwest of the Azores. SOVIET UNION K-27: The only Project 645 submarine, it was irreparably damaged by a reactor accident (control rod failure) on May 24, 1968. 9 were killed in the reactor accident.

After shutting down the reactor and sealing the compartment, the Soviet Navy scuttled her in shallow water (108 ft (33 m)) in the Kara Sea on September 6, 1982, contrary to the recommendation of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). K-8: A Project 627 November class submarine was lost April 11, 1970 while being towed in rough seas following a fire on board. The submarine was initially evacuated, but 52 reembarked for the towing operation. All hands on board were lost (52), while 73 crewmen survived on the rescue vessel. Location: Bay of Biscay, 490 kilometres (260 nmi) northwest of Spain in the North Atlantic Ocean. K-219: A Project 667A Yankee I class sub was damaged by a missile explosion October 3, 1986, then sank suddenly while being towed after all surviving crewmen had transferred off. 6 crew members were killed. Location: 950 kilometres (510 nmi) east of Bermuda in the North Atlantic Ocean.

K-278 Komsomolets: The only Mike-class sub built sank due to a raging fire April 7, 1989. All but 5 crewmen evacuated prior to sinking. 42 perished, many from smoke inhalation and exposure to the cold waters of the Barents Sea. A total of 27 crew members survived. Soviet submarine K-429 sank twice, but was raised after each incident RUSSIA K-141 Kursk: The Oscar II class sub sank in the Barents Sea on August 12, 2000 after an explosion in the torpedo compartment. See Russian submarine Kursk explosion. All 118 men on board were lost. However, all except the extreme bow section was later salvaged. K-159: The hulk of the decommissioned Soviet-era November class submarine sank in the Barents Sea on August 28, 2003, when a storm ripped away the pontoons necessary to keep it afloat under tow. 9 men perished in the accident.

Dd INNOVATION - Nuclear submarines are considered by many superpowers to be a covert delivery system and thus immune to detection. Hence, an insurance policy against first strike. That was so until the concept of the Seawolf autonomous delivery system for the Predator hunter-killers (or similar weapon). Predator mini-subs are capable of taking out any submarine covertly. A pack (grid) could neutralize a fleet of submarines simultaneously. Once the wolf-pack acquires a target, it passes that information between a network of autonomous ships, each one having the capacity to launch a Predator (or similar weapon), to sink any nuclear submarine while submerged. Once a target is acquired, it is passed between the network and continuously tracked until countermeasures, or first strike is/are deemed necessary. The hunter becomes the hunted. A study of a global deployment strategy that will work is long overdue. SPORT - Nuclear submarines may soon be the sport of new navies armed with ZCC HKs. It's will be much like a modern computer game - in fact frighteningly so. Though this game uses similar programming to a game, the hardware that tracks the subsea targets is under development - meaning that the lifetime of existing submarines could be limited.

That in itself is part of the game that is modern warfare: Keeping up with developments and trying to stay ahead of the game. Remembering the Kursk Submarine Sinking Remembering the Kursk Submarine Sinking Claudio Paschoa October 3, 2013 Kursk wreck b d f ef b d f Kurskvstoledo ingressimage b b dfff b f ad kursk the Disaster oscar class l Rudnitsky normand pioneer On August 12 2000, K-141, a Russian Navy Oscar-II class nuclear-powered cruise missile submarine, known to the world as Kursk, was lost with all hands when it sank in the Barents Sea. Kursk, was a Project 949A (known by its NATO reporting name as Oscar II). It was named after the Russian city Kursk, where the largest tank battle in military history, the Battle of Kursk, took place in 1943 during WWII. One of the first vessels completed after the end of the Soviet Union, it was commissioned into the Russian Navy's Northern Fleet.

At 154 m (505.03 ft) long and four stories high, she was the largest attack submarine ever built. The Kursk sortied on an exercise to fire dummy torpedoes at the Kirov-class battle cruiser, Pyotr Velikiy, flag ship of the Northern Fleet. At 11:28 local time (07:28 UTC), there was an explosion while preparing to fire. The most credible report to date indicates the explosion was due to the failure of one of the Kursk's hydrogen peroxide-fueled Type 65 torpedoes. It is believed that high test peroxide (HTP), a form of highly concentrated hydrogen peroxide used as propellant for the torpedo, seeped into the torpedo casing because of a leaking weld in the torpedo's fuel system. The HTP used as an oxidizer for the torpedo's engine, escaped into the torpedo casing where it catalytically decomposed on the metals and oxides present there, yielding steam and oxygen. The resulting overpressure ruptured the kerosene fuel tank.

The resulting explosion produced a blast equal to 100–250 kilograms (220–550 lb) of TNT and registered 2.2 on the Richter scale. The submarine sank in relatively shallow water, bottoming at 108 metres (354 ft) about 135 kilometres (84 mi) off Severomorsk. A second explosion, 135 seconds after the initial event, measured between 3.5 and 4.4 on the Richter scale, equivalent to 3-7 tons of TNT. One of those explosions blew large pieces of debris back through the submarine. Though rescue attempts were offered by U.S, British and Norwegian teams, Russia declined initial rescue offers. All 118 sailors and officers aboard Kursk perished. The Russian Admiralty at first thought that most of the crew died within minutes of the explosion; however, some of the sailors had time to write notes. Captain Lieutenant Dmitriy Kolesnikov, one of the survivors of the first explosion, survived in Compartment 9 at the very stern of the boat after blasts destroyed the forward spaces of the submarine. Recovery workers found notes on his body.

They showed 23 sailors (out of 118 aboard) had waited in the dark with him. Even 32 hours after the first explosion no attempt was made to acoustically (hull tapping) check for survivors when the Russian Submarine Rescue Vehicle (SRV) Priz attempted to mate with the aft escape trunk. Eventually, the Russian Navy allowed a consortium formed by the Dutch companies Mammoet and Smit International, using the barge Giant 4 raised Kursk and recovered the dead, who were buried in Russia. Kursk submarine model Email this page to a friend K-141 Kursk was a Russian nuclear cruise missile submarine which was lost with all hands when it sank in the Barents Sea on August 12, 2000. Kursk, full name Àòîìíàÿ ïîäâîäíàÿ ëîäêà "Êóðñê" [ÀÏË "Êóðñê"] in Russian, was a Project 949A Àíòåé (Antey, Antaeus but was also known by its NATO reporting name of Oscar II).

It was named after the Russian city Kursk, around which the largest tank battle in military history, the Battle of Kursk, took place in 1943. One of the first vessels built after the fall of the Soviet Union, it was commissioned into the Russian Navy's Northern Fleet. Mahogany wood. Scale: 1/240. Length 25 1/2 inches. Russian sub sinks with 118 onboard - Aug 12, 2000 - HISTORY.com Russian sub sinks with 118 onboard Share this: Russian sub sinks with 118 onboard Author Russian sub sinks with 118 onboard URL Publisher A+E Networks A Russian nuclear submarine sinks to the bottom of the Barents Sea on this day in 2000; all 118 crew members are later found dead. The exact cause of the disaster remains unknown. The Kursk left port on August 10 to take part in war games with the Russian military. Russian ships, planes and submarines met up in the Barents Sea, which is above the Arctic Circle, to practice military maneuvers.

On August 12, the Kursk was scheduled to fire a practice torpedo; at 11:29 a.m., before doing so, two explosions spaced shortly apart occurred in the front hull of the submarine and it plunged toward the bottom of the sea. The Kursk was 500 feet long and weighed 24,000 tons. It had two nuclear reactors and could reach speeds of 28 knots. It was the largest attack submarine in the world, approximately three times the size of the largest subs in the United States Navy. With the fate of the 118 Russian soldiers onboard the Kursk unknown, several nations offered to contribute to the rescue effort, but the Russian government refused any assistance. When divers finally reached the Kursk a week later, they found no signs of life. Under a great deal of pressure, Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to raise the submarine from the sea bottom for an investigation, although no ship or object that size had ever before been recovered from the ocean floor. Furthermore, given that the Barents Sea is frozen for most of the year, the operation had only a small window in which to work.

Using $100 million, the best available technology and an international team of experts, the Kursk was raised on September 26, 2001, about a year after the accident. Unfortunately, however, the team was forced to cut off the front hull from the rest of the sub in order to bring it to the surface, leaving the best evidence of what caused the explosions at the bottom of the sea. Related Videos Discovery Channel Raising the Kursk - YouTube Discovery Channel Raising the Kursk Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. The interactive transcript could not be loaded. Loading... Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Feb 16, 2014 K-141 Kursk was an Oscar-II class nuclear-powered cruise missile submarine of the Russian Navy, lost with all 118 hands when it sank in the Barents Sea on August 12, 2000. At 154m long and four stories high it was the largest attack submarine ever built.

To serve aboard the Oscar-II class nuclear submarine was always considered safe, so accidental explosion rocked not only the Russian government, military experts and families of the victims, but causing also extensive discussion in the international community. The Russian government decided to conduct the largest-ever marine salvage operation. By interviews with personnel and graphical analysis of the scene, you will witness how the tireless divers worked day and night in a race against the clock. 'Raising the Kursk' tells the true story of this extremely complex operation. Category

Question: What was the name of the Russian submarine that sank, with all hands, in the Barents Sea in October 2000?
Answer: KURSK